Hot coffee and blueberry pancakes, a morning fire and mimosas that got refilled more than they should.

See those little dots on the wall? That’s blueberry juice from a pancake that exploded.

And then happy morning seamlessly shifted into happy afternoon…

With kitchen prepping…

The arrival of ones we love…

And Cheers to a rich, happy day.

He did read the Wikipedia pages, by the way, and everyone is now a Thanksgiving scholar. Thank you, Brett.

My glass says it all, Baby.

One of our sponsors, Pip and Bean capes is having a Black Friday sale, 15% off until midnight Monday, use code “pipblackfriday2010” at checkout.

And Black Friday is the perfect time to introduce our new Sponsor, Sticks and Stones, featuring beautiful original keepsake art created upon order from alphabet photography. They’ve been featured on Oprah, Martha Stewart and Rachel Ray! Check ’em out.

We love ours! (and Lainey loves spotting the letters!)

For a limited time, Sticks and Stones is offering buy one, get one 50% off as well as free shipping. And they are giving away one keepsake up to a $200 value. “Like” Sticks and Stones on Facebook HERE (if you have a Facebook), and mention in your comment that you did. Giveaway winner will be announced Monday.

Guess what we did tonight?

Yup. Tree is up and fire is crackling. Movie is a’ rollin’…more to come.

Comments

So, I found your blog the other day, and have not been able to stop reading your beautiful story, starting with the birth of your dear Nella! (Thank you times a billion, for being so amazing, and brave and just sharing your gorgeous life 🙂

YAY, Nella’s first Christmas! If you didn’t already own that mug that would be the PURfect Christmas gift for you! I had my twin and her kids here with me for the holiday and I shared your blog with her. She went to bed and I logged on again and POOF, a new post and already 10 posts from commenters! So thankful for that! Really pumped to brave the WI winds tomorrow to get our tree, isn’t this time of year simply magic!? BTW: Did you win the best blog contest? It’s such a winner to me, life changing, empowering, inspiring, all that and more! If you have time vote for my peanut, trying to get him to win 1st in the “Spooked by Santa” photo contest by Parent’s. He’s 3rd right now, the more votes the merrier (voting ends the 28th).

great post, as usual! Glad you had such a wonderful thanksgiving. Not so glad your littles are fighting a nasty cough. I “like” Sticks and Stones on facebook but there should really be a “love” option!

Looks like you guys had a great Thanksgiving. Love the idea of a Thanksgiving Pajama Breakfast. Totally doing that next year. Would LOVE one of the Sticks and Stones pictures. And I liked them on Facebook! 🙂

Oh my goodness – I love those Sticks & Stones names! One of my cousins did one for our Grandparents of our last name on their own a few years ago and I have loved that idea ever since then. Currently I am prego with Baby #2 and am so thankful this year to have a wonderful husband, beautiful 2 year old boy and a baby kicking away happily in my belly. I am due Dec 30th and the part giving me anxiety is that we don’t know the sex – it’s fun but a girl needs to decorate 🙂 I would love to win this name keepsake art to help get my decorating going for my new bundle!! Happy Thanksgiving to your beautiful family – I can’t wait to get our tree up tomorrow!

I just “liked” the facebook page of “Sticks and Stones” I think that is just a cute keepsake! Also your Annual Thanksgiving Pajama Breakfast idea is awesome… I think I shall start that with my little family from now on. 🙂 btw, LOVE you!!

I love, love, love your tradition of a Thanksgiving breakfast in your pjs!!! That is so cute and looks like a great way to start the day! Seeing littles still in footied pjs makes me happy and want to have littles of my own soon.

So, this is my favorite post from you in awhile (& that’s sayin’ something)! You had me at the picture of sweet Nella waving by the fireplace! Hope the pie wasn’t perfumed on the second go around! Those Sticks & Stones prints are too cool. I’d love to display one of their originals in my home!

I LOVE the photo of Nella waving in her little yellow pjs. And I “liked” Sticks and Stones on facebook–I made photo words when I was in photography in high school. I believe I still have one somewhere, though it’s not nearly as good as the professional job, of course. I’m glad you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Ours was magical, too. Have a happy weekend!

Love the half full glass! And the sticks and stones artwork! My Christmas list is about a mile long with all the goodies from sponsers that you post on your blog! I liked sticks and stones on facebook!

Cooking with children is frustrating, inefficient, and extremely messy. Isn’t it awesome! My two year old twins made cupcakes for their daddy tonight as a surprise when he came home. They were so excited. My little boy kept saying, “Mommy this is so fun!”I just recently started reading your blog and I am absolutely in love. I can’t wait to read the new posts each day. I am truly inspired by your love for life and wanting to breath in every moment. I have always loved the holidays and spending time with family, but now that I have children it is so much more magical! Thank you for giving me so many wonderful ideas. I can’t wait to read more special traditions you do with your sweet babies. I “liked” Sticks and Stones on FB. I saw something like this in a boutique the other day, and added it to my Christmas list when I got home. Thanks for sharing and I hope your precious babies feel better soon.

LOVE the picture of Nella waving at the fire!! So awesome! Liked the sticks and stones artwork. I have my tree up too – tis the season!! Can’t wait to hear more about your weekend. Hope the girls are on the mend!

Love.Love.Love little Nella hands spreading her love helping out making thanksgiving din. Oh blue berry splatters yes we’ve had that many times 😉 Oh and I “liked” it. Sticks and stones has beautiful work

YES< I clicked LIKED on Facebook for sticks and stones ! I love it!! Kelle, it looks like you and yours had such a great holiday! Sorry your girls have coughs and are a bit under the weather. Take good care. Love from your blog mama

The glass half full brought a smile to my face. If you ask me, there are enough people in the world who choose to only see the bad, it’s so refreshing and encouraging to come to your blog and see someone who embraces the good and acknowleges the existance of unicorns 🙂 Oh, and I also “liked” the sticks and stones page – my little boys’s name would look so beautiful framed like that!!

I know that you will get squazillions of responses to this post but if you [or any of your readers] sees this I’d REALLY REALLY REALLY like to get a set of ‘half full’ glasses for our family.Could anyone help with a supplier?

Secretly I lust after your house whenever you put pictures up. I live in a teeny tiny house but I guess a teeny tiny house is perfect for a teeny tiny family. Glad you had a wonderful holiday! I liked Sticks and Stones 🙂

I love your glass ‘Half Full’! Very neat. I’m glad you all had a good Thanksgiving, even though your girls have coughs 🙁Seriously though, I love your little Nella! She’s adorable! I want to just eat her up!!

Baby I ‘liked it’! Thankgiving looks beautiful in your house, especially the fact you have friends that you’re comfortable enough with that you can entertain in your jim-jams! And Lainey’s dimple on the one picture…too adorable! Nella eyes are amazing.

After my daily check in on your beautiful blog I am once again inspired…this time to put my tree up earlier than planned! I’m in Canada and so our Thanksgiving was in October, and after seeing yours I can’t wait for next years. I have seen Sticks and Stones before and have loved their art from the start. I certainly “liked” them on FB too!Jenn- Victoria BC

Ohhh Kelle!!!Your glass half full totally made me smile and laugh and I just sooo am feeling that!! Your holiday looked so cozy and natural. I love that you shared a glimpse of it with us! Holidays should be cozy and natural! Also… I love your dad. Every time I see him in a post of yours I just have to smile. He is so obviously love’n life. His energy is felt even through photograph to someone who’s never met him, many miles away. I love it!Give those girls a squeeze. Miss Nella is growing up and I’ll admit, I’m a bit sad seeing her baby features turn to toddler. But ohh, toddler is good. Toddler is so challenging and surprising in so many awesome ways (as you well know, I’m sure).

This is my first time to comment, but I have been in love with your blog since August. My best friend and fellow special education teacher recommended to me that I read Nella’s birth story. I haven’t stopped reading since then. I also decided to take the plung and start my own blog, so I would start taking more pictures and writing all my thoughts down. I love all the etsy sites you recommend and every picture and idea you post about. Thank you for sharing your talents and family!

Oh! And the latest thing I am in love with his you glass half full! And the beautiful Letter Art!

I saw thos pictures at a different blog over a year ago!! I love them! So I liked them on fb!!We are about to prepare our Thanksgiving meal a little late!! We dont get Thanksgiving off in Germany so we are doing it on a saturday with friends!!Can’t wait for all the food!!

Totally love the sticks and stones, went to their site and created my daughters names, that is super cool.. Love the glass half full… Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend… me and mine are getting ready to go to a childrens hands on musuem.. Enjoy! Michele

My heart is too full! What is it about holidays that makes that pendulum of emotions broaden its sweep…the greatest of pure blissful moments and with them, precious reflective thoughts that make your eyes swell with tears. Life flies by too swiftly. Our babies grow up too fast. What a difference a year makes. Last year, Nella was deep in our hopes. Now, she is deep in our hearts. She has truly given us more than we have her. And every time I am here, I see leaps of growth in the boys (Austyn dating?!! Yikes!) Brandyn becoming such a sweet and kind young man. Lainey becoming fiercely independent…where did she get that, Ha! And Nella…studies me just a moment or to then throws herself back into our growing relationship of Poppa and peanut! I hope all readers’ holidays are too full with love this year. No matter what the economy has done you you–it is the best free gift out there!

Maybe I’m just emotional today, but your Thanksgiving pictures made me teary. Your life is so beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us. I liked sticks and stones on facebook, I love how you share these amazing finds with us, I’ve purchased things through a few of your sponsors and I have a wishlish a mile long from others!

We’re setting up the Christmas tree and putting out all the decorations today and I gotta say, my little one has LOVED being able to decide where everything is going. I think Christmas is going to be even more fun this year!! I liked sticks and stones on FB- what great art!

Ah! The perspicuitous longings of urnal festivites does indeed broaden one’s sweep of the pendulum of the all-too-brief periods of four and twenty periods of sixty sets of sextant precious seconds spent on this third rock from the sun that all have the great fortune of identifying as our place in our brief span.. To be expelling the sweet gases of mythiucal single-horned equines from the posterior regions of our frail vessels of life. To be belching forth the glitter of lividy after having sucked it from yon marrow of ostei.

Happy Holidays!! We thought we were going to meet our baby boy on Thanksgiving day but he’s decided to hibernate for a bit longer!The girls are just too beautiful for words!!Is it just me or does anyone else wish facebook had a “love” button? Actually I wish I had access to a love button every day! 🙂

kelle,your family is so beautiful and precious.cherish these days they are so swift.i laughed at the exploding pancake on the wall!hope those sweet little babys are back healthy and feeling good in no time. God bless you and yours.

I was just at a florist yesterday that had some Sticks and Stones. My younger sister who is getting married on a new years made a comment about how much she loved them. It would be a great wedding present! I liked them on FB!

Love the sticks and stones site….love what it says, something for the person that has everything – so true! I do have facebook and ‘liked’ it and plan to share with others that don’t have facebook. As for your blog, the family picture in front of all of the stockings rocks!

I just found your blog, and I wanted to thank you for sharing. I am a mother of three, and my youngest daughter (who is 6 months) was born with Down Syndrome. I am working my way through my emotions, and your blog is a true testimony that life does goes on and and can still be as wonderful as we envisioned it would be. Thank you again, words can move mountains. Also, I liked sticks and stones on FB.

I “like” sticks and stones…I have told your apple pie story a number of times now…I have to ask though, all of your baking with your pictures look like everything goes perfectly…I feel like when I try to bake with my kids I turn into a nasty mommy…are you always calm when you cook with them?

Hi Kelle! I have been reading your blog for a while and I am not one to leave a comment,but I have to say I am in love:) My 9 year old daughter and I read it together sometimes and She is in love with Nella and Lainey! Its funny because I saw that half full glass in a catalogue and instantly thought of you.I love that you have that.It makes me happy:) Thank you for sharing your family and your life with us.We are so grateful.You and your family are etched on my heart forever.

Oh my goodness reading your stories, along with the photos and music always puts a smile on my face! I love your “half full” glass. And super love the Sticks and Stones! What a great idea, I “liked” them. And so, I hope they “like” me back. Also I a Bradley Natural Childbirth educator in the making and put your blog on my resource list for students that have children with ds. You are a great inspiration for what a mother is and should be!

And having a Thanksgiving breakfast in p.j’s with friends……well……I must do that too!!! So fun.

P.S. What an awesome collage from Sticks and Stones. We are always looking for things like that in everyday life. Very cool to put those items together to spell names of those we love. THanks for the link!

My boys have that cough right along with running noses. Must be something in the air. I love your glass. So cute and so clever. Where is it from? I also “liked” Sticks and Stones on FB. Those pics are awesome.

I love that Brett read the W page on Thanksgiving! Daddy’s are good at imparting that knowledge we otherwise would be too lazy to get 🙂 My husband always seems to know little tidbits of things that leave my head swirling…. “how did you know that? Do you read the encyclopedia in your spare time?” 🙂 And I love how it leaves our little kids thinking “daddy know everything!”

Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry the girls are sick. My babe still has that yucky stuffed up nose and lingering cold 🙁 Get well soon!

Kelle, I love your blog and have been following it since the birth of Nella. Found you through Heidi….I am a good friend of her mom-in-law Linnie. Love your thoughts….photos…energy and emotion. Sticks and Stones is awesome….been wanting to get one for my home. Have a wonderful holiday season!Donna

Kelle, I love your blog and have been following it since the birth of Nella. Found you through Heidi….I am a good friend of her mom-in-law Linnie. Love your thoughts….photos…energy and emotion. Sticks and Stones is awesome….been wanting to get one for my home. Have a wonderful holiday season!Donna

Kelle, I love your blog and have been following it since the birth of Nella. Found you through Heidi….I am a good friend of her mom-in-law Linnie. Love your thoughts….photos…energy and emotion. Sticks and Stones is awesome….been wanting to get one for my home. Have a wonderful holiday season!Donna

I love the glass half full glass! That’s awesome & I totally want one! & the picture of miss Nella waving, PRICELESS! Happy 1st Thanksgiving from my little one to yours! Its wonderful to see each year how blessed your family is especially when there are new little faces!

It’s a toss up really… which Nella shot I love more… that little wave or helping make apple pie. Have to go with the wave… little yellow bit of wonder! Looks like your celebration was a beautiful one. Love the morning pj breakfast tradition too. Happy weekend.xokatep.s. Sticks & stones are “liked” on FB

I think the picture of Nella waving from the fireplace is the best one yet! And where did you find the glass half-full?? I “Like”d Sticks and Stones on Facebook. Their work is beautiful. Happy holidays, Kelle & family!

liked Sticks and Stones on FB! I love your blog. I check it often and love that you give us such a raw and honest look into your sweet family and life!!! Hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving!!! Hug those beautiful girls extra tight!!

I just posted a “like” for Sticks and Stones. So cute, especially for the kid’s room. I’m so thankful this past Thanksgiving for my sweet little family. My Vivian who has Ds has been signing up a storm lately and saying the words right along with it. Get ready for the waterworks when that happens with Nella! She’s 2 1/2 and her brother was born pretty close to Nella on 1/16. Can’t believe they are going to be 1!!! I need to start thinking of a place to have Tommy’s party since our apartment is too small here in San Francisco. Have happy, wonderful holidays! Whenever I get a break from the kids I like to snuggle up and read more of your yummy blog!

Uhhh, excuse me, but the hand with Lainey’s as we rolled out pie dough was mine…hee hee. And we personified the dough and even made it squeal when we pressed the cookie cutters into it and cut out our shapes to sprinkle with cinnamon sugar before baking them. Yes, it was sort of pie dough sado-masacism…but Lainey seemed to enjoy it. Funny, this little girl who has such compassion for every living creature does not seem to mind our cut ups with dough–or maybe it was just my very entertaining and convincing voice-thrown shrieks!

Lovin’ that Nella greeting in front of the fire, too sweet in those bee jammies. I’ve been dying to order one of those name art photos with our last name…it’s actually on my Christmas list, I’m asking the hubby for it. So I liked ’em on facebook and maybe hubby will get lucky and not have to buy me a present after all?? 🙂

Hi Kelle,That is such a beautiful picture of the gorgeous Nella waving!I think it’s lovely the way Brett did his research to tell the kids about Thanksgiving. What a great Dad!Nice to see Poppa Rik enjoying time with Lainey and Nella.

I left you a comment earlier and I must have done something wrong because now it’s gone. Anyway, LOVE your photos and your heart. I especially love the one of Nella in the little hat and the white dress in front of the quilt. So beautiful.I like Stick & Stones on facebook, too – such an exceptional idea. I am thank-full too – for my family, all of our blessings. Happy day!

I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments of your 11/24 post about the true, spontaneous moments of gratitude and I think that’s what I love most about your blog. It’s there in every post – the savoring of that which makes life most flavorful. Thank you for sharing that with the world and, in so doing, prompting us to be a little more thankful for all that we have each and every day!

Two things:

1) I like (love!) Sticks-n-Stones – having been wanting one of those name keepsakes for my daughter… which brings me to…

2) Our baby girls are just a few weeks apart in age (my Natalia arrived 2/8/10) and soooo many pics of your Nella make me think of my Nattie. I often tell Nattie about Nella and Lainey’s exploits after reading your blog, and I practically feel like you are some extended portion of our family. Hope that comes off in a sweet way, not a stalker way. 😉

I am so jealous that Lainey looks so lovey to Nella. My Nathan is amazing – except when it comes to his sister – he is a wretched, jealous child to her (and she is such a sweet thing she loves him even more!). And, also, I liked Sticks and Stones on FB. Very cool. I want one and if I don’t win, I may have to try it on my own…..

Glad to hear that your Thanksgiving was a success! Here comes Christmas…!

I ran over to Sticks and Stones’ Facebook page and liked it, because if there are two things I love it’s good photography and the last name I share with my handsome husband! I wish I could snag one of these for everyone I know.

Hope your girls are feeling better soon 🙂 I just love the pj breakfast party! How fun, especially w/ Mimosa!What a fab idea of the letter photography! I ‘liked’ them on fb and love the chance to win! Here’s to a glass half full!

I love the Sticks and Stones art! I have this with our last name, but never thought of doing it with my girls’ first names. What a great idea. And we are doing the same thing – chilling with our tree up and a fire blazing. Love it.

I just have to say I love the photo of Nella waving! Hi sweet Nella! 🙂 It sounds like you all had a wondeful Thanksgiving!!! I just love this time of year too!!! I also love the Sticks and Stones artwork. What a neat idea! I hit the “like” button on FB! Thanks for having all of these awesome giveaways too! 🙂

Also, love the sticks and stones art. I have seen them before and have tried to emulate that in my own photography, but have always come up short missing something. Their work is fabulous!

I also love the tradition of the pajama breakfast. great idea!

also, just want to let you know, when I feel slightly embarrased to be taking so many pictures at family functions and other events, even not significant ones (in others’ eyes), I think of your blog and how beautifully you are able to showcase parts of your life so much better through photography. when I think of that, I just keep snapping away.

Awe Nella and Colbie have the same jammies! Love them. Glad you had a wonderful Holiday with your family. As always, thank you for sharing your life with us. Lainey and Nella are gorgeous as is your entire family.

where did you get your glass? it rocksi love nella’s hat against the quilt, especially with her beautiful eyes (because they are so gorgeous and so full of some kind of wisdom-joy that it always makes me smile to see them).

Happy Thanksgiving friend. I just love that when I come to your blog I am never disappointed..I am either smiling or grabbing tissues. Nella waiving..Lainey feeding her..Poppa and Lainey’s hand..blueberry stains on the wall..all add up to one big smile!

You know in the world of blogging I have seen some sites that are full of sarcasm, hate, envy and just straight out cruel..just read one tonight..I am ever so grateful that they are so few and that I am seeing a growth spurt in the “Life is good” blogs and I think your blog has so much to do with it. So I for one am thankful that you are paving the way and making it cool to be happy in a world that sometimes looks down on those of us who do not want to drink from the glass of “half empty.” ♥

My girlfriend has a “sticks and stones” piece of art in her home and i’ve always admired it! I liked it on Facebook and would love to win – money is short these days what with being out of work to buy art, but I love a beautiful home! Thanks for your blog – I look forward to your posts each day. Such a delight to read. 🙂Happy Holidays!

Your headbands are so adorable. Have you mentioned where you get them? I want one:) Lovin’ the pic of Nella waving. Looks like a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. My neice wants one of those Sticks and Stones pictures really bad. She’s going to go gaga when she sees this.

I am so excited about the “Sticks and Stones” art!! I just bought a piece last night that said “Dream” and I’m completely in love with it! I’ve never heard of it before or saw anything like it, but I am hooked!!

Thanks for sharing your Thanksgiving day. My kids are jealous that you already have your tree up! I liked Sticks & Stones on FB. In case I don’t win I’m going to start looking for letters to photograph – such a fun idea!

I have to say your girls and the boys are so very lucky to have poppa. I look forward to seeing his presence in your pictures. My favorite….he is ever so carefully painting Lainey’s toes. Makes me a bit envious & sad for my boys. Our parents teach us about parenting, though we tend to forget lessons in grandparenting also come from them. Its worrisome, my boys have 4 living granparents and they dont even know it. I am overcome how that one picture has inspired and given me such a lesson…..though a few years off. The picture captured such grace and patience, your teaching those of us poppa that are otherwise grandparent-less. Don’t even get me started about 3 generations riding the NYC subway together.

Yes, Nella waves…and seems to know even when the wave is the appropriate salutation. The other night, I took her on a walk and put her to sleep on the way around the block. Returning, I gently placed her in her bed and patted her just a bit to assure she was still deep in Slumberland. Well, it wasn’t but five minutes that we heard her and when Kelle brought her back into the awakened world in the living room, she, without even the trace of a smile, just waved and waved, as if to say “…’member me? I’m back!”

rik, ” member me , im back”!that was too sweet for words.stop makin me cry.justin kiddin, go on and make me cry.there is nuthin more precouis then the memories were makin with our grandbabies.drip dripmy tearsbut my face is smilin!

We had a very sad Thanksgiving in our family this year. We went on a family vacation to Marco Island (near you Kelle!!). Included on the trip were my Husband and our two daughters, my husband’s parents, his Grandparents (both 80 and both in Fabulous shape) and his aunt. However, on Tuesday morning his beautiful, sweet, and loving Grandmother had a massive stoke and passed away. It was definitely not the way we all imagined our vacation in paradise would turn out. We do, however, find comfort in the fact that she LOVED Marco Island and the Monday before she passed was spent surrounded by those who loved her most in a beautiful home in a beautiful place.

Thank you for your beautiful post and the reminder of the “glass half full” mentality. Even though it’s easy for us to be sad, we have to try to remember all of the happy times with Grandma and celebrate her wonderful and long life. She would want it that way:-)

Sounds like a lot to be thankful for this year! I liked Sticks and Stones on FB. That would make an awesome addition to the display of photos at my upcoming wedding and would be something great to hang in our living room with my new last name!

Love the first pic of Nella waving @ the camera. She is getting so big. And you with her on the counter, you are so patient with them. And the one with her hand on Brett’s hand is breathtaking.Thanks as always for sharing your family with us.

That wall art is amazing. I liked it on Facebook, and I’d LOVE to get one for my nephew-to-be’s nursery. And as always, thanks for the grace and inspiration; it’s always a peaceful joy to catch up here.

Joy…if heaven had a waiting room from which you might catch a glimpse of the beauty waiting behind the doors, Marco Island just might suffice. I am so sorry to hear your family reunion included a farewell–but what precious last sounds to still echo in her ears, the laughter and love of her family. You are in my heart…deep.

I don’t know about you, but I am facing these holidays with a totally different ‘air’ than I have in the past. I too gave birth to a ‘surprise’ in January (1/6/10). My surprise was different; Patrick was born incredibly ill but after 120 days in the NICU, has overcome the most incredible obstacles and is on his way, thriving and smiling and laughing and keeping the rest of us with our priorities in better order.

Kelle, there I was scrolling down your post when I stopped and let out an involuntary cry….. the photo of ?a grandfather holding Nella’s face – something in that photo touched me deeply, love that you didn’t put words to that photo because you are right it didn’t need a THING said about it – and yet it sayes a thousand words – of love, protection, gentleness, caring, perfect and tender….. thankyou

Linda and Rik, Thank you deeply for your thoughts. They mean so much. And Rik…thank you for what you wrote. Just like Kelle, your way with words is very comforting and uplifting which is the reason I am a faithful follower of this blog.

I liked Sticks and Stones on Facebook. It’s a great idea and came at a perfect time because I’m currently looking for a original, personal Christmas present ideas, especially for my grandmother who lost her mother to congestive heart failure this month. The holidays are going to be extra hard this year so I am hoping to put a smile on her face with a memorable keepsake.

me ‘liked’ sticks and stones! your post drove away my monday blues 😀 I totally lol-ed at the photo of nella doing a little wave, and did a wave back at the computer screen -_- that picture is making its way onto my desktop for the week! Hi nella, much love! <3

Love you, love your kids, love your photography. I loved all of your pictures, but the one of Nella in that cute white shirt made me pause. It’s so sharp, and she’s so darn cute! Anyway, A+. We’re totally friends.Oh, and I like the Sticks and Stones name thingies! I normally hate those things because I think they look cheesy, but those are really awesome. I’m going to check them out right now! And I liked them on Facebook. Because I’m a sucker for a contest.

Your Thanksgiving looks like it was wonderful.We got snow here in Quebec this weekend, and I am now feeling in the Christmas spirit…an alphabet photo would be a great gift for my husband!!!♥Laurie in Terrebonne, QC, Canada

I love the pic of Nella waving and smiling in front of the fireplace. Such a sweet angel face. PS. I “like”d the Sticks and Stones on FB and purchased two Christmas presents for my family… thanks for the recommendation 🙂

I ‘liked’ Sticks and Stones on facebook. And I LOVE their artwork! The coughs hit our house as well, and Saturday we rested from the parade in NYC, Black Friday Shopping, and lots of turkey – and no one dared change out of PJs all day! Best ever!

Your thanksgiving looked beautiful and well informed! (Thanks to Wikipedia) Thank you for sharing! The sticks and stones pictures of Nella and Lainey’s names are perfect. (I also liked them on facebook)